Sublime

The central question I ask myself during a therapy session is simply this one: Which part of you am I talking to? Am I talking to the mature part of you, the one who’s present in the here and now? This is the part I call the Wise Adult. That’s the part that cares about us. Or am I speaking to a triggered part of you, to your adversarial you and me

Our three centers—mind, body and feeling—work with different energies, and their disposition determines the influences that reach us.

Following in Jung’s footsteps, James Hillman (1926–2011) – an American psychologist who studied at and then was Director of Studies at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland – founded “archetypal psychology,” a post-Jungian approach rooted in the archetypal basis of psyche. Archetypal psychology focuses on the myriad fantasies and myths

Healing, he told us, depends on experiential knowledge: You can be fully in charge of your life only if you can acknowledge the reality of your body, in all its visceral dimensions.

psychoanalysts are the Amish of the mental health profession. What we do is deliberately slow. It asks us to sit (or lie) still, to spend long hours immersed in our feelings, to enter into a view of life that is process-rather than goal-oriented.

Part of the critical work of understanding in which he engages is a differentiation of the voices, a disidentification.

perceiving and interpreting self and others, interpersonal function, impulse control, and affect regulation.